STATE OF NEW YORK
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3290
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 24, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. TENNEY, BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the regulation of pseu-
doephedrine
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 220.72 of the penal law, as added by chapter 394
2 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 220.72 Criminal possession of precursors of methamphetamine.
4 1. A person is guilty of criminal possession of precursors of meth-
5 amphetamine when he or she possesses at the same time a precursor and a
6 solvent or chemical reagent, with intent to use or knowing that another
7 intends to use each such precursor, solvent or chemical reagent to
8 unlawfully manufacture methamphetamine.
9 [Criminal possession of precursors of methamphetamine] 2. It shall be
10 illegal and a violation of subdivision one of this section for any
11 person to purchase or sell an amount in excess of 3.6 grams a day or 9.0
12 grams per month of pseudoephedrine without regard to the number of tran-
13 sactions.
14 3. Any violation of subdivision one or two of this section is a class
15 E felony.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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